Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 74

On the raised mound which she had made as a grave for the dead priest, she found the cross made of the branches of a tree, the last work of him who now lay dead and cold beneath it.

Who acts: flock, last work, priest · What happens: raise, make, find, lay, work · To what, where: raised mound, cross

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flock, last work, priest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 mound	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mound	det
3	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mound	amod
4	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obl
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 made	nsubj:pass
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mound	acl:relcl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 grave	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 grave	det
11	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 priest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 priest	det
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 priest	amod
15	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mound	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cross	det
20	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obj
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 cross	acl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 branches	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 branches	det
24	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 made	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 tree	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tree	det
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 branches	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 work	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 work	det
30	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 work	amod
31	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cross	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 work	nmod
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 lay	nsubj
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 lay	advmod
36	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 work	parataxis
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lay	xcomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 cold	cc
39	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 dead	conj
40	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 cold	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	participle						vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	past · perfect · passive		the raised mound			as a grave; for the dead priest	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for priest=Asset
3	find	past	flock	the cross and the last work of priest	the raised mound			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Topic
4	make	participle		the cross and the last work of priest not said here			of the branches of a tree	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	lay	present	the last work of priest			now	dead property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	work		priest					nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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